[Bug 191296] x11/xdm fails to start xfce4

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=191296

Jean-Sebastien Pedron <dumbbell at FreeBSD.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |dumbbell at FreeBSD.org
           Assignee|x11 at FreeBSD.org             |xfce at FreeBSD.org

--- Comment #3 from Jean-Sebastien Pedron <dumbbell at FreeBSD.org> ---
The following comments were lost with the 2015-01-07 Bugzilla incident:

Jean-Sébastien Pédron:
> What is the status of this? Is the solution proposed by Mikhail working for
> everybody?

Olivier Duchateau:
> In work in progress Xfce's FAQ [1], [2], there's solution (workaround, question
> #2) if someone wants to use Xdm with Xfce.

> I won't patch xinitrc, because it breaks session and other applications
> targeted 4.11. Xfce works fine with polkit, (even sysutils/polkit is not good
> shape). Patch pointed by Mikhail is xinitrc used with Xfce <= 4.8, and it's not
> approved by upstream.
>
> [1] https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1305
> [2]
> https://subversion.assembla.com/svn/xfce4/doc/head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/xfce/

Jean-Sébastien Pédron:
> Should this bug assigned to the Xfce team then? So you can close it when D1305
> is committed.

Mikhail T.:
>> I won't patch xinitrc, because it breaks session and other applications
>> targeted 4.11.
>
> I'm sorry, I can not understand the above. Are you talking about the
> etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc?
>
> Maybe, the same hack can be placed into the startxfce4 script itself?
>
>> not approved by upstream.
>
> Well, it is not rejected by upstream either :-)

Olivier Duchateau:
> Yes, I'm talking about /usr/local/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc file. Xdm needs this
> file.
>
> I disagree to modify startxfce4 script. The best solution is to modify
> $HOME/.xinitrc only.
>
> In the FAQ, there's part how to launch Xfce, and even with SLiM and non UTF-8
> encoding .xinitrc must be changed.

Olivier Duchateau:
> Re-assign to the Xfce team

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